domingo, 14 de outubro de 2012

"...King Solomon's Seal
combines strength and beauty, symbolism and illustrative quality and all
within a geometric figure, the most important characteristic of Islamic
art. The Moslem artist's love of geometry allows the true essence of
King Solomon's Seal as a symbol of the connection between the two worlds
to be expressed; in this context, it symbolizes the link between
science, beauty and metaphysics, with elements of medicine and magic,
astronomy and astrology, the art of irrigation and its influence on the
garden, and the symbolic connection between pleasure gardens and the
Garden of Eden, between the sky and architectural domes and on
traditional cosmology and its connection to religion.
Today, the
hexagram is known as the "Star of David" and is seen as the definitive
symbol of Judaism the term is even used in Islamic
countries" .. see more in my shop.

sábado, 6 de outubro de 2012

"The pleasure rising on
the chest hurts so much that it is preferable to feel the accustomed
pain than the unusual pleasure. The true joy has no possible
explanation, does not have the ability to be understood – and looks like
the beginning of a unrecoverable doom. This merge is unbearably good -
as if death was our greatest good and the end, but it isn't the death,
it is the immeasurable life that comes to resemble the grandeur of
death. Should be left to flood by joy slowly – because this is the life
born. And those who do not have strength, that cover every nerve with a
protective film, with a film of death in order to be able to tolerate
life. This film can consist of any formal protective act, in any silence
or in multiple words without meaning. Because the pleasure is not to
play with. It is we."

("The Birth of Pleasure ", Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector was a writer that came from Ukraine, but lived most part of her life in Brazil).